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*	This readme file provides information about the replication	*;
*	files for the paper, "Partisan Portfolio Allocation in 	        *;
*	African Democracies" (Ariotti and Golder)       		*;
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*				Files Provided				*;
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*	We provide our original Africa data, as well as the do files	*;
*	and log files for all of the analyses shown in the article. 	*;
*	We provide description of the cabinets (and sources consulted)	*;
*	for the Africa portfolio data used in the analyses. Note that	*;
*	on the completion of M. Ariotti's dissertation, a more 		*;
*	comprehensive description of all democratic governments from	*;
*	1990-2014, in addition to the ones used in our portfolio 	*;
*	allocation analyses, will also be made available on request. 	*;
*	The Warwick and Druckman Europe data and the Almeida Latin	*;
*	American data are available from their authors. The Francois, 	*;
*	Rainer and Trebbi ethnicity data are available in their		*;
*	article's replication files on the supplementary material	*;
*	web-page of the journal Econometrica.				*;
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*				Data Setup				*;
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*	ariotti_golder_data.do takes original dataset (imported into	*;
*	Stata as Africa_govt-party_obs.dta from xls file) and 		*;
*	renames/creates variables we need; new dataset is Africa.dta.	*;
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*	ariotti_golder-descriptive1.do takes original dataset (imported *;
*	into Stata as Africa_govt_obs.dta from xls files) and		*;
*	gets some descriptive statistics; new dataset is		*;
*	Africa_govt_descriptive.dta.					*;
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*	ariotti_golder-descriptive2.do takes original dataset (imported *;
*	into Stata as Africa_govt_majority_status.dta from xls files)   *;
*	and gets some descriptive statistics; new dataset is		*;
*	Africa_govt_descriptive2.dta.			      		*;
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*	warwick_druckman_data.do takes original 2006 Warwick and	*;
*	Druckman data (wtportfolios5.dta) and takes/renames/creates 	*;
*	variables we need; new dataset is Europe.dta.			*;
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*	almeida_data.do takes Almeida's dataset (imported into		*;
*	Stata as almeida_cabinets.dta from xls file) and 		*;
*	renames/creates variables we need; new dataset is America.dta.	*;
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*				Analysis				*;
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*	africancabinets_multi_region.do takes Africa.dta, Europe.dta,  	*;
*	and America.dta and replicates the results in Table 2 as well	*;
*	as some robustness checks, and Table 6 in Appendix C.		*;
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*	africancabinets_africa.do takes Africa.dta and replicates	*;
*	the results in Table 3.						*;
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*	africancabinets_aux.do takes aux_cabinet.dta and runs the       *;
*	auxilliary analyses mentioned in footnote 14 comparing 		*;
*	cabinets with complete partisan portfolio information to	*;
*	cabinets without complete information.				*;
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*				Figures					*;
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*	africancabinets_figure1.do takes Europe.dta and produces	*;
*	Figure 1.							*;
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*	africancabinets_figure2.do takes Africa.dta and    		*;
*	produces Figure 2.						*;
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*	africancabinets_figure3.do takes Europe.dta and Africa.dta	*;
*	and produces Figure 3.						*;
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*	africancabinets_figure4.do takes tpm3.dta from Francois, Rainer	*;
*	& Trebbi 2015 and produces Figure 4.				*;
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	africancabinets_figure5.do takes Africa.dta and Europe.dta	*;
*	and produces Figure 5 (a and b) in Appendix B.			*;
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*	africancabinets_figure6.do takes Europe.dta, Africa.dta, and	*;
*	and America.dta and produces Figure 6 in Appendix C.		*;
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*	africancabinets_figure7.do takes Africa.dta and    		*;
*	produces Figure 7 (a and b) in Appendix D.			*;
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